Historical

The centurion commanded a centuria of about eighty legionaries, appointed from the ranks for valor and leadership, and formed the ...

The legatus legionis commanded a legion of roughly five thousand legionaries, appointed by the emperor from the senatorial class, ...

The military tribunes, tribuni militum, numbered six per legion in the republic and early empire: five junior, one senior, the tri...

Dux, Latin for leader, from ducere, to lead, was a Roman title for any commander, but in the late empire it named the officer comm...

Cornet was the junior officer of a cavalry troop, the equivalent of the infantry ensign, named for the cornet, the swallow tailed ...

Hetman, from the German Hauptmann, head man, was the title of the grand commander of Polish and Lithuanian forces from the fifteen...

Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in November 1935 for the five senior commanders of the Red Army, Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky ...

Pasha, from padishah, lord, was the Ottoman title of generals, admirals, governors, and viziers, marked by the horsetail standards...

Shogun, short for sei i taishogun, great general who subdues the eastern barbarians, began as a temporary imperial commission agai...

The primus pilus, literally first file, was the most senior and prestigious of a legion's centurions, commanding the first century...

Marshal of France dates to the Middle Ages and is technically a state dignity rather than a military rank, signified by a blue bat...

Generalissimo, from the Italian superlative of general, has been used for a commander placed above all other generals of a state o...